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chief executives elected for one year terns
consuls
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elected official who could veto certain bills
tribune
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type of government where the citizens elect represantatives in the government
republic
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controlled the armies; assisted the court system
Praetors
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elected every 5 years for 18 months
censors
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powerful aristocratic class that organized into clans to hold power in government
Patriarchs
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commmoner; any citizen that wasnt a patriarch in the Roman republic
Plebians
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most important unit in Roman army
legion
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roman military group of non-citizens that weren't as important
auxilla
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father of the family.
had absolute authority.
Paterfamilias
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roman religious leader elected for life
Pontifex Maximus
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money paid for the damages caused by war to the winner
indemnity
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group of wars between Rome and Carthage beginning in 264 B.C.
Punic Wars
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Carthaginian ruler that attacked Rome during the Punic Wars
1 of the greatest generals of all time
Hannibal
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Roman general who defeated Hannibal and his army
Scipio
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officials who worked with the censors. (CORRUPT)
Publicans
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large roman estates
latifundia
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class of roman business and landowning people who had great wealth
Equites
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slave revolt leader
Spartacus
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-elected tribune in 133 BC
- popular amongst the people
- killed by the senators
Tiberius Gracchus
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-elected tribune in 123 BC
-worked for the poor
-bought grain with public funding
Gaius Cracchus
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-military hero that was also elected consul
-revotulionized the roman army
Gaius Marius
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-elected to consulship in 88 BC
-invades rome and becomes dictator
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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-marius's nephew
-military leader in spain and gaul
-part of the 1st trimuvirate
Julius Caesar
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three leaders joined power in 60 BC
The first triumvirate
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Who did the first triumvirate consist of?
- Julius Caesar
- Gaius Pompey
- lichnius Crassus
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Caesar's chosen heir/his 18 year old nephew
Took part in the 2nd Triumvirate
Octavian
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-General and Caesar's ally
-held a lot of power in Rome
Marc Anthony
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Caesar's second in command
Lepidus
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What did Ocatavian call himself that meant first citizen?
princeps
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Who is the first Augustus?
octavian
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-emperor during the Julio-Claudian era
-adopted son of Augustus
-decent unliked ruler
Tiberius
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-Julio-CLaudian emperor
- brutal and insane
-murdered by military
Caligula
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-poisoned by his wife Agrippina
-decent ruler
Claudius
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-fire in Rome
-known for being brutal
-commits suicide in 68
Nero
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the first of the five good emperors
Emperor Nerva
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-2nd good emperor
-Spanish guy that brings empire to its largest size
Trajan
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-supports the arts
-"good emperor"
-romanizes and builds fortifications
Hadrian
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-last of the good emperors
-protects against invasion
-last emperor during the Pax Romana
Marcus Aurelius
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Pax Romana
extended period of Roman peace
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bridge-like structures that carried water from the mountains
Aqueducts
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Roman law, written in the ____________, was modified during the Pax Romana
Twelve Tables
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How many years did soldiers have to serve for to gain citizenship?
20
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tenant farmers that began to replace slaves on large estates
colonus
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chariot racing place
The Circus Maximus
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greatest authority on medicine
Galen
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earth is the center of the universe
Ptolemy
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-Rome's greatest poet
-wrote the Aeneid, Horace, Ovid
Virgil
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-wrote
- Annals
- Germania
Tacitus
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What were the Annals?
a history of the empire
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-wrote parallel lives
-compared Roman and Greek figures
Plutarch
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nothing to back up currency
Inflation
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workers trade association
collegia
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Marcus Auerilis's son; rules to 193 AD and is strangled to death
Commodus
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-soldier that becomes emperor in 284
-has supreme authority and limited culture but improved Rome during prior to its collapse
Diocletian
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another good emperor after Diocletian that protects Christians
Constantine
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The last emperor to rule a unified Roman empire
Theodosius
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German tribe north of the black sea
Ostrogoths
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German tribe north of the Danube River that entered Rome peacefully and then revolted b/c of unfair treatment
Visigoths
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viscous barbarian tribe that scared the Europeans
Huns
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-king of the Visigoths
-captured Rome in 40
Alaric
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barbarians that invaded the west and destroyed everything
Vandals
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The last western emperor
Romulus Austulus
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In what year does the Western empire collapse?
476
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